Automobile tire-trunk.



A. ZIEVB & H. DAVIDOVITZ.

AUTOMOBILE TIRE TRUNK.

APPLICATION FILED 13120.12, 1010.

Patented Sept. 23, 1913.

COLUMBIA PLANOGRAPH co., WASHINGTON, D c.

ABRAHAM ZIEVE AND HARRY DAVIDOVITZ, 013 NE'W YORK, N. Y.

AUTOMOBILE TIRE-TRUNK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

iiatented Sept. 23, 13913.

Application filed December 12, 1910. Serial No. 596,887.

I! '0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, ABRAHAM Zinvn and Hanoi DAVIDOVl'tZ, subjects of the Czar of Russia, residing in the city of New York, borough of Brooklyn, county of Kings, and State of New York, and in the borough of Manhattan, county and State of New York, respectively, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Automobile Tire- Trunks, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specification.

This invention relates to and has fo' an object to provide an improved device of the character which is generally known in the automobile trade as a tire trunk, the object of the invention being to provide a trunk of simple construction and neat appearance. provided with a dustproof and waterproof closure.

In the drawings accompanving and forming a part of this specification, one ernbodimentof our invention is illustrated, in which drawings" Figure 1 represents a front view oi. the trunk partly broken away. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical section thereof; and Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail of the joint between the closure and the head which carries the same, together with its housing or guide.

In the trunk illustrated herein, the bodyportion 5, is shown substantially cylindrical for fitting within the extra tire shown by dotted lines at 6, carried by an automobile, and to which tire the trunk will be secured by some suitable means. Straps 7, a re shown herein for holding the trunk in position within the tire.

The rear of the body-portion of the trunk is shown closed by a head 8. The head will be held in position by some suitable means. In the illustration the flat, inner face of the head engages the rear edge. A bindingstrip 9, secured to the head and the bodyportion, holds the head in position against the body-portion. The front of the bodyportion of the trunk is shown closed by a head 10. The inner, flat face of the head 10 is engaged by the front edge of the body portion. This head is shown held in position by means of a binding-stri p 11, secured to the head and to the body.

The front head 10 is provided with an opening 12, through which the interior of the trunk may be reached. In the present showing such opening is substantially semicircular and its upper edge is an arc of a circle having the center of the head as its pentcr. The opening .12 herein illustrated is shown so disposed relative to the body of the head 10 that the circumferential outline of the head remains intact and a substantial amount of the material of the head will lie radially outward of the opening.

The closure 123, for the opening l2 is, in the present showing, of semi-circular form and sulliciently large to overlie the tint face of the head 10 when the closure is in its closed position. The closure 1?, is shown pivoted at let to the center of the head 10. its outer edge is shown as the arc of a circle having such center and pivot as its center, the radius ot the arc of the closure being greater than the radius of the arc of the opening. The circular edge of the closure will overlie the portion between the circular edge of the opening and the cireum't'creinse of the head.

A. housing in the nature of a guide .5, is provided for the edge of the closure. This member, constituting a housing and guide, is for the purpose of guiding the outer edge of the closure while this moving toward or from its closed position, and for ail'ording a waterproof and dustproof housing for the edge of the closure when in its closed position.

'lhe trunk, when in use, will preferably occupy substantially the position illustrated in Fig. 1; that is with the center of the arch of the opening 12 uppermost and the head 10 in substantially a vertical plane.

The body-portion of the trunk, its heads and the closure, will in practice generally be covered outwardly with some waterproof n'iaterial.

The member 15 is shown as comprising a strip angularly bent in a longitudinal direction to form a Hat outer attaching flange 10 and an inner oll'set guiding flange 17, the at taching flange being titted llat against and secured to the arcuate integral portion of the head extending between the circular edge of the opening and the periphery of the head; and the inner guiding flange being arranged in spaced relation with the inncr part of the said integral arcuate portion of the head, and forming therewith a guiding groove located at the curved edge of the said portion. \Vaterproof material 18, is shown lining the inner or rearward face of the portion 17 and extending over the outside of this portion and the portion 16, and

I outer surface of the closure.

extending to the outer perimeter of the head 10, at which point it will be engaged by the binding-member 11. The edge of such waterproof material being covered by the hinding-strip, will make not only a neat, but a water-tight oint on the outside. The presence of this material on the inside will present a smooth anti-frictional sur'face'for the Material impervious to water at the juncture of this housing and the closure will prevent access of water.

' A strip of some suitable dust-stopping material 19, is shown surrounding the edges of the opening 12; that is, this material. occupies'a position on the outer face of the head 10 adjacent the edges of the opening.

The inner face of the closure 13 is provided with similar material 20 for coiiperation with the material 19. Felt is a good mate rial of which to make these faces 19 and 20; W hen the closure is ina closed position, water will be prevented. from finding access to the joint between the upper edge of the closure and the upper edge of the opening by means of the housing 15, waterproof 1na terial coming in contact with waterproof material at this point, and dust will be prevented from finding access to the interior of the device by means of the faces 19 and 20 of dust-stopping material coming into engagement. v

A suitable handle 21 may be provided for turning the closure upon its pivot 14-. Catches 22, 28, may be provided for holding the closure shut or for locking the same, as occasion may demand.

In'thepresent illustration but one form of our invention is shown and described, but we do not purpose limiting ourselves thereto, since changes can be made without departing from the spirit of the invention.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. In a tire trunk, the combination with a cylindrical body of a circular head secured at its periphery to the cylindrical body and provided in its upper portion with a segmental opening having its curved edge spaced from and concentric with the periphery of the circular head leaving a relatively broad integral arcuate top portion, an annular binding strip having angularly related flanges embracing the cylindrical body and overlapping the peripheral portion of the said head, an arcuate housing and guiding strip angularly bent in a longitudinal direction to form a flat outer attaching flange and an inner offset guiding flange, the attaching flange being fitted flat against Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

and secured to the said arcuate integral portion of the circular head between the side edges thereof, and the inner guiding flange being arranged in spaced relation with the lnner portion of the said lntegral arcuate portion of the head and forming therewith a guiding groove located at the curved edge of the said portion, and a substantially segmental closure pivoted to the center of the body and overlapping the peripheral por-' tion of the said head, an arcuate housing and guidlng strip angularly bent in a longitudinal dlrection to form a flat enter attaching flange and an inner ofl'set guiding flange, the attaching flange being fittedflat against and secured to the said arcuate integral portion of the circular head between the side edges thereof, and the inner guiding flange being arranged in spaced relation wlth the inner portion of the said integral arcuate portion of the head and forming therewith a guiding groove located at the curved edge of the said portion, and a substantially segmental closure pivoted to'the center of the head beyond the opening thereof and having its peripheral edge guided in the said groove, a sheet of water proof material covering the outer face of the closure, and a sheet of Water proof material having its outer portion fitted against the lntegral arcuate port on of the head adacent to the periphery thereof and extending under the annular bindin strip, the inner portion of the said water proof strip overlying the exterior of the guiding and housing strip and extendingaround the inner edge of the guiding flange and over the inner face thereof to fit against the peripheral portion of the closure when the.

latter is in its closed position. I

In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands 1n the presence of two subscribing, witnesses.

ABRAHAM ZIEVE. HARRY DAVI'DOVITZ. Witnesses I CHAS. LYON RUssELL, Isanonn Bnnnsrnm. 

